Lagoinhas, Santa Maria (Pleistocene of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (37.0° N, 25.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 25.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed Late Quaternary marine deposits. AGE: Pleistocene. No basis for age given in text, but presumably is based on macrofaunal biostratigraphy and stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Succession comprises cemented and bored carbonate sands, overlaind by 0.5 m beach sands with concentrations of shell debris.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone and shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Comprising species of rocky, sandy or algal substrates from the supralittoral to upper sublittoral marine environments.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Succession comprises cemented and bored carbonate sands, overlaind by 0.5 m beach sands with concentrations of shell debris. LITHIFICATION:

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Callapez & Ferreira Soares

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Callapez & Ferreira Soares, c. 1990's. REPOSITORY: Housed in the Earth Sciences Department of the University of Coimbra (DCTUC).

Primary reference: P. Callapez and A. Ferreira Soares. 2000. Late Quaternary warm marine mollusks from Santa Maria (Azores) paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic considerations. Ciencias da Terra 14:313-322 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122244: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive faunal list for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Myoforceps aristata" = Lithophaga aristata
"Myoforceps aristata" = Lithophaga aristata Dillwyn 1817 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys distorta" = Talochlamys pusio
"Chlamys distorta" = Talochlamys pusio Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona
"Arca tetragona" = Tetrarca tetragona Poli 1795 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata
"Cardita calyculata" = Cardita (Cardita) calyculata Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia castanea Montagu 1803 clam
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ellobiidae
Ovatella (Mysotella) myosotis Draparnaud 1805 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides
"Melarhaphe neritoides" = Littorina neritoides Linnaeus 1758 periwinkle
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania cimicoides Forbes 1844 snail
Alvania cancellata da Costa 1778 snail
Zebina vitrea Adams 1854 snail
Cingula cingillus Montagu 1803 snail
Manzonia unifasciata Dautzenburg 1889 snail
Rissoa similis Scacchi 1836 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma, "Coralliophila meyendorffi" = Coralliophila meyendorffii
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
"Coralliophila meyendorffi" = Coralliophila meyendorffii Calcara 1845 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Gibberula sp. Swainson 1840 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus ermineus Born 1778 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
"Mangelia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia) Loven 1846 snail
Mangelia costata Donovan 1803 snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
"Mitrella broderipii" = Mitrella broderipi
"Mitrella broderipii" = Mitrella broderipi Sowerby 1844 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus variegatus Gray 1839 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
Charonia lampas Linnaeus 1758 triton
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetus sp. Daudin 1800 worm shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Triphoridae
Monophorus perversus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Cerithioidea - Planaxidae
Fossarus ambiguus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium reticulatum da Costa 1778 cerith snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Jujubinus exasperatus Pennant 1777 top snail
Jujubinus striatus Linnaeus 1767 top snail
Calliostoma zizyphinum Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Lepetellida - Haliotidae
Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus 1758 abalone
 Patellogastropoda - Patellidae
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin 1791 limpet